2016
Cicirelli, Franco; Fortino, Giancarlo; Giordano, Andrea; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
On the Design of Smart Homes: A Framework for Activity Recognition in Home Environment Journal Article
In: Journal of medical systems, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 200, 2016, ISSN: 0148-5598.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: activity recognition, analytics, cloud computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart homes, wearable wireless body sensor networks, wireless sensor and actuator networks
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A smart home is a home environment enriched with sensing, actuation, communication and computation capabilities which permits to adapt it to inhabitants preferences and requirements. Establishing a proper strategy of actuation on the home environment can require complex computational tasks on the sensed data. This is the case of activity recognition, which consists in retrieving high-level knowledge about what occurs in the home environment and about the behaviour of the inhabitants. The inherent complexity of this application domain asks for tools able to properly support the design and implementation phases. This paper proposes a framework for the design and implementation of smart home applications focused on activity recognition in home environments. The framework mainly relies on the Cloud-assisted Agent-based Smart home Environment (CASE) architecture offering basic abstraction entities which easily allow to design and implement Smart Home applications. CASE is a three layered architecture which exploits the distributed multi-agent paradigm and the cloud technology for offering analytics services. Details about how to implement activity recognition onto the CASE architecture are supplied focusing on the low-level technological issues as well as the algorithms and the methodologies useful for the activity recognition. The effectiveness of the framework is shown through a case study consisting of a daily activity recognition of a person in a home environment.
2015
Fortino, Giancarlo; Giordano, Andrea; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
A Data Analytics Schema for Activity Recognition in Smart Home Environments Inproceedings
In: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Sensing, Processing, and Using Environmental Information: 9th International Conference, UCAmI 2015, Puerto Varas, Chile, December 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, pp. 91, Springer 2015.
BibTeX | Tags: activity recognition, analytics, cloud computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart homes, wireless sensor and actuator networks
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2014
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Rainbow: an Intelligent Platform for Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. Inproceedings
In: Fortino, Giancarlo; Karnouskos, Stamatis; Marrón, Pedro José (Ed.): Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects for Smart Cities 2014 (UBICITEC 2014) co-located with CPS 2014, Berlin, Germany, Apr 14, 2014., pp. 70–85, CEUR-WS.org, 2014, ISSN: 1613-0073.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: cloud computing, cyber physical systems, multi-agent systems, smart city, swarm intelligence
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title = {Rainbow: an Intelligent Platform for Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems.},
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year = {2014},
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pages = {70--85},
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abstract = {Recent advancements in the fields of embedded systems,communication technologies and computer science, have laid the foundations for new kinds of applications in which a plethora of physical devices are interconnected and immersed in an environment together with human beings. These so-called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) issue a design challenge for new architecture in order to cope with problems such as the heterogeneity of devices, the intrinsically distributed nature of these systems, the lack of reliability in communications, etc. In this paper we introduce Rainbow, an architecture designed to address CPS issues. Rainbow hides heterogeneity by providing a Virtual Object (VO) concept, and addresses the distributed nature of CPS introducing a distributed multi-agent system on top of the physical part. Rainbow aims to get the computation close to the sources of information (i.e., the physical devices) and addresses the dynamic adaptivity requirements of CPS by using Swarm Intelligence algorithms.},
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Recent advancements in the fields of embedded systems,communication technologies and computer science, have laid the foundations for new kinds of applications in which a plethora of physical devices are interconnected and immersed in an environment together with human beings. These so-called Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) issue a design challenge for new architecture in order to cope with problems such as the heterogeneity of devices, the intrinsically distributed nature of these systems, the lack of reliability in communications, etc. In this paper we introduce Rainbow, an architecture designed to address CPS issues. Rainbow hides heterogeneity by providing a Virtual Object (VO) concept, and addresses the distributed nature of CPS introducing a distributed multi-agent system on top of the physical part. Rainbow aims to get the computation close to the sources of information (i.e., the physical devices) and addresses the dynamic adaptivity requirements of CPS by using Swarm Intelligence algorithms.
Giordano, Andrea; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea
Definizione di algoritmi per la gestione di eventi provenienti da Smart Object in ambito Cloud Technical Report
2014.
BibTeX | Tags: cloud computing, complex event processing, multi-agent systems
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title = {Definizione di algoritmi per la gestione di eventi provenienti da Smart Object in ambito Cloud},
author = {Andrea Giordano and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci},
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